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Patented Dec. 3, 1889.

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JOHNII. JACKSON, OF EL DORADO SPRINGS, MISSOURI.

BARBERS-CHA IR REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,627, dated December 3, 1889.

Application filed May 31, 1889. Serial No. 312,789. (No model.)

To on whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN H. JACKSON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of El Dorado Springs, in the county of Cedar and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Barbers-Chair Register; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to-make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a side view. Fig. 2 is perspective view in detail. Fig. 3 is a section. Fig. 4 is a perspective detail, and Fig. 5 is a section.

This invention relates to certain improvements in registering for barbers chairs, designed to effect a registration indicating dollars and cents each time the chair-back is tilted or each time the head-rest is 1noved,as is done whenever a person is shaved or has his hair cut; and to this end the nature of the invention consists of the novel construction and combination of parts, as will be understood from the following description.

In the embodiment of my invention I apply to the back-seat bar or cross-piece of a barbers chair A. the register B to register the charge for each shave. I also apply to the pivoted or tilting back of the chair near the head-rest a second register B to register the price or amount of each hair-cut. The registers B B have each a tape 1), upon which are printed figures or numbers adapted to make a proper registration, one of each hair-cut and the other of each shave. The tape Z) in each register is wound or reeled upon a roll 0 at one end of the inclosing-case C, while it is unreeled from a similar roll 0 at the opposite end of said inclosure or case. The shafts of these rolls are j ournaled in the sides of the case 0, one being provided with a ratchet (Z, which engages an actuating orpropellingpawl 6, while it is held against a back movement bya spring-detent f, secured in the case C. These pawls are suitably guided, as shown. The pawl e in each case is normally held under the action of a spring 6", so that when pressed upon in opposition to the action of the spring it will engage the coincident tooth of the ratchet d, giving the latter a partial rotation, and will distend the spring, unwinding a portion of the tape from one roll and rolling it upon the other. Thus the required figures or numbers will be brought in alignment with the glass-covered viewing-opening f in the case C. The recoil action of the spring e will upon the release of the actuating-pawl return the latter to its original position for the repetition of its registering operation. The pawl e of the register B has a buffer-rod or lever g, which is encircled by a spring 6 (see Fig. 1) and passed through and held in the outer apertured end of an arm g of said pawl. The other end of said rod passes through an eye bracket or guide 71, projecting from the bar a of the chair A, and transversely through an aperture in the same passes a pin or key holding it against retraction from said guide or bracket. This end of the rod 9 is so disposed that with each tilting movement of the chair-back it will be caused to effectthe desired registration. The returning of the chair-back to its original upright position will permit the return of the pawl past the ratchet to its former position for the repetition of the aforesaid operation. The operation of course takes place when a person is to be shaved, thus registering the charge for the same. The pawl e of the register B has an arm 9 (see particularly Fig. 4) extending through a slot 9 of the closure, and through this arm passes the pin 6, in turn passed through the head-rest slide g and engaging the chair-back, and which pin e is encircled by a spring 9 In the use of the register B the pin or rod 6' is disengaged from the chair-back by pulling outward upon said pin or rod, the rod or pin serving to hold in place the head-rest. Consequently upon retracting the pin to remove the head-rest the pawl of the register will be moved so as to actuate the ratchet, and thus effect the desired registratiom As it is only when a person desires to have his hair cut that the head-rest is removed, therefore the registering operation just referred to will indicate the charge of such transaction.

The registers are adapted to register in charges not less than twenty dollars nor more than fifty dollars.

Having described this invention, What I claim, and desire to secure by LettersPa tent, 1s

The combination, with the chair-back and removable head-rest slide, of the register comprising the closure having in one side a slot and containing rolls, one havinga ratchet, a

numbered tape carried by said rolls and unwound from one roll while being Wound upon the other roll, the holding-pawl engaging said ratchet, the spring engaging said pawl, the propelling-pawl also engaging said ratchet JOHN H. JACKSON. Witnesses:

WM. H. ANTHONY, A. W. HUTCHISON. 

